The Mammoth Book of the West (64 page)

Harpe, Micajah and Wiley
269

Hart, Pearl
335
,
526

Hart, William S.
505
,
506

Hastings, Lansford W.
97–8

Hays, Captain John Coffee
314

Haywood, William
327

Hearst, George
119

Henderson, Judge Richard
23
,
517

Henderson, Prairie Rose
500–1

Henry, Andrew
55
,
56

Hickok, James Butler
157–8
,
174
,
256–6
,
258
,
272
,
332
,
522
,
523

highway robbery
138
,
264
,
268–9

Hodges, Ben
275–6

Hole in the Wall
478
,
479

Holladay, Ben
138
,
142

Holliday, Doc
304–5
,
307–8
,
309
,
310
,
311

Homestead Act (1862)
232
,
381
,
522

homesteaders
232–3
,
463–77

Horn, Tom
245
,
274
,
318
,
489–94

horses
195

horse breaking
185–6

horse stealing
84
,
87
,
233
,
260

introduction to America xiv,
6
,
383

saddles, bridles and bits
194

Houston, Sam
65
,
66–7
,
73
,
75

Hudson’s Bay Company
51

Iliff, J. W.
159

immigrants
11–12
,
74
,
467–8

Indian Territory
261
,
340
,
343

Indians
see
Native American Indians

International Workers of the World
327–8
,
527

Iroquois
16–17
,
26

James, Frank
281
,
287
,
289
,
498

James, Jesse
270
,
279
,
281–9
,
318
,
507
,
522
,
524

James, Will
232

James-Younger gang
283–8
,
318
,
524

Jamestown
8
,
147
,
516

Jayhawkers
153

Jefferson, Thomas
33
,
34–5
,
44
,
518

Jeffords, Thomas
351
,
432

Jennings, Al and Frank
292–3
,
504
,
525

Johnson County War
239–44
,
245
,
504

Johnson, John
133

Joseph, Chief
429
,
524

Kaepernick, Bertha
500

keelboats
129

Kelley, Hall Jackson
78

Kentucky
20–3
,
29
,
518

Kentucky rifle
13
,
256

Kicking Bear
451
,
456

Kilpatrick, Ben
479–80
,
526

Kiowa
350
,
409

Koch, Peter
131–3

labour wars
319
,
327–8
,
526–7

law enforcement

Indian police
262–3

lawmen
180
,
261–2
,
294–302
,
304–12

Pinkerton’s Detective Agency
263
,
285
,
317–28
,
484

private police forces
263

rangers
262
,
313–17

vigilantism
117
,
212
,
233–6
,
237–8
,
239–44
,
263–7
,
328
,
461
,
524

lawmen
180
,
261–2
,
294–302
,
304–12

Lederer, John
10
,
516

Ledyard, John
34

Lee, Jason
79

Lemmons, Bob
188

Leone, Sergio
511–12

Lewis and Clark expedition
35–43
,
518

Lewis, Meriwether
see
Lewis and Clark expedition

Lillie, Gordon W. (Pawnee Bill)
498

Lincoln County War
211–15
,
524

Lisa, Manuel
52–3

Little Big Horn
423–7
,
523

Little Crow
354
,
355
,
356
,
357
,
522

Little, Frank
328
,
527

livestock associations
204

Logan brothers
478–80
,
483
,
487

Long Drive (1866)
152–4

long hunters
20–1

Long, Major Stephen Harriman
47–8

Long Walk (1864)
349
,
522

Longbaugh, Harry (Sundance Kid)
480
,
485–7

Longley, William P.
273–4

Louisiana Purchase
33
,
518

Love, Nat
500

Loving, Oliver
159–60

lynch-law
237–8
,
263–4
,
266

Mackenzie, Colonel Ranald
409–10
,
413
,
428

Mackenzie, Murdo
200

Madsen, Chris
291
,
300–1
,
302

mail and freight services
134–42

Malone, Washington
150–1

Mandan
38
,
339
,
499

Mangas Coloradas
346
,
347
,
348

Manifest Destiny xiii,
77

marshals
see
lawmen Massai
460

Masterson, Ed
295–6
,
524

Masterson, William B. (“Bat”)
257–8
,
304
,
311
,
412

Mather, Dave
296

Maverick Act
236–7

McCabe, Edwin
467

McCoy, Joseph
155–6
,
176

McDougal, “Cattle Annie”
333

Medicine Lodge peace talks (1867)
388–9

Mercer, Asa Shinn
244

Mexico
61
,
62
,
64
,
65

Miami
31–2

Miles, General Nelson A.
348
,
429
,
443
,
444
,
445
,
447
,
448
,
452
,
456
,
525

Miller, Alfred Jacob
58–9

Miller, Jim
296
,
316–17
,
526

miners’ strikes
262
,
327
,
526

missions
6–7

Mississippi River
45

Missouri River
36

“Molly Maguires”
317
,
319

Morco, John
296

Morgan, Middy
189

“Mormon War”
111
,
521

Mormons
80
,
103–111
,
521

Morrison, Marion (John Wayne)
506
,
509
,
512

Mountain Meadows Massacre
110
,
111

Mountain Men
56–7

Mulhall, Lucille
493

Murieta, Joaquin
271

Mussel Slough Shoot-out
252
,
524

Nacogdoches
62
,
64

Nana
348
,
350
,
435
,
441

Natchez Trace
268

Native American Indians

army scouts
413
,
422

in the Civil War
343–4

Ghost Dance
451–2
,
456

Indian police
262–3

Indian Wars
31–2
,
342–80
,
386–445

inter-tribal conflict xiii

outlaws
276–8

prehistory
3–4

reservation system
341

in the War of

Independence
25–8

White-Indian mutual aid
83–4

see also
individual tribes e.g. Apache

Nauvoo
80
,
104
,
105

Navajo
349–50

Newton “General Massacre”
178–9

Nez Perce
428–9

Nickell, Willie
491–4

Nix, Evett Dumas
269–70
,
291–2
,
299–300
,
302

Northwest Ordinance (1787)
29–30
,
518

Oakley, Annie
489
,
490

Ohio
32
,
497

Ohio Valley
15
,
18
,
19

O.K. Corral gunfight
306
,
309–10
,
524

Olmstead, Frederick Law
74–5

Oregon
79–80

Oregon Trail
79
,
80
,
114

Otter-Van Orman wagon train
86–7

outlaw dynasties
289–93

outlaw-heroes
270
,
271
,
273

outlawry
268–93

overlanders
78–95

Palo Duro
202–3
,
413

Parker, Cynthia Ann
314
,
406–7

Parker, Judge Isaac
261
,
275
,
334
,
335
,
523

Parker, Robert LeRoy (Butch Cassidy)
479–80
,
484–6
,
487

Parker’s Fort
406

Pawnee
46
,
85

Peacemaker (Colt revolver)
257

Pekinpah, Sam
510–11

Pennsylvania
11

Phillips, John
378–9

Pickett, Bill
499–500

Piegan
41–2

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
44–7
,
518

Pike’s Peak
46
,
48
,
359

Pinkerton’s Detective Agency
263
,
285
,
317–28
,
484

pioneers
see
overlanders

Plains Indians xiii-xiv,
342
,
364
,
384–5
,
423

Pleasant Valley War
229–31
,
525

Plummer, Henry
264
,
522

Pontiac Rebellion
18
,
20

Pony Express
137–8

Prairie Schooner
81

Proclamation of 1763 (limiting White settlement)
19
,
24
,
517

prostitution
117
,
176–7
,
330

Pueblo uprising (1680)
7

Quahadi Comanche
388
,
407
,
409–13

Quanah Parker
388
,
406
,
407
,
409
,
410
,
411–12
,
413–14
,
450

Quick, Flo
332–3

railroads
142–4
,
382
,
384–5

ranching
196–201

range wars
206
,
211–15
,
525

Ray, Nick
239
,
240

Red Cloud
367
,
368
,
369
,
374
,
379–80
,
415–16
,
419
,
420

Red Light districts
174

Reed, James
96
,
98
,
101

religious migrants
8
,
103
see also
Mormons

Remington, Frederic
182

Reno brothers
283–4
,
318
,
501

Reno, Major Marcus
423
,
424
,
426–7

river traffic
128–34

road agents
see
highway robbery

Rocky Mountain Fur Company
55–6
,
58
,
78

rodeos
495
,
498–501

Rogers, Major Robert
17
,
18

Roman Nose
374
,
390
,
523

Roosevelt, Theodore
448–9
,
501

Rose of the Cimarron
333

Rose, Louis
70–1

Russell, Charles M.
225

Russell, Jane
508

Russell, William H.
136–7

Ruxton, George
56–7

St Vrain, Ceran
60

Salt Lake City
108
,
110

San Antonio
66
,
67

San Francisco
113
,
116–17
,
330

San Francisco Committee of Vigilance
263–4

San Jacinto, battle of
73–4

San Juan
6

Sand Creek Massacre
362–4
,
510
,
522

Santa Anna
65
,
66
,
67
,
68
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
74

Santa Fe
47
,
59–60

Santa Fe Trail
60
,
519

Santee Sioux
353–7
,
522